[Sca-cooks] treacle RE: German Breads

[Terry Decker]

Quite correct and definitely an error on my part for not verifying the 
usage.  According to my OED, using treacle to refer to sugar syrup first 
appears in the 17th Century.  Prior to that it was a remedy for poison with 
a number of recipes if the named variants are any indicator.

Bear

> Comment: treacle in period would not be sugar syrup, but a medicine made
> from a variety of ingredients whose recipe we are not sure of. It's
> documented all over the place, but there are few and conflicting recipes.
>
>> Long shot here - how about the use of fruit pulp instead of molasses or
>> honey, say pounded raisens?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Treacle and molasses come out of the sugarmaking process, so my argument
>> against their use in period German bread is same. >
>> Let me say that this is my analysis and interpetation of the situation 
>> and
>> that I have no direct evidence of the use or non-use of molasses in the
>> German States during the 15th and 16th Centuries.
> -- 
> -- Jenne Heise / Jadwiga Zajaczkowa